Donegal and Mayo standing on the shoulders of giants

Over 200km and a chasm in competitiveness separated Mayo’s defeat of Mayo and Donegal’s destruction of Armagh last Sunday afternoon but in the performances of Aidan O’Shea and Michael Murphy, there was at least one common thread.

Both big men earned man-of-the-match votes for performances that went a considerable way to backing up the old maxim that a good big ‘un is always better than a good little ‘un.

It’s true the two giants performed very different duties at the weekend, but that only served to highlight their versatility.